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Glasgow-Blatchford Score

Need for intervention in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, scored 0–23.

When to use it. Deciding who with an upper GI bleed can be managed as an outpatient.

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Limits of this score. The GBS is designed to identify the LOW-risk patient who needs nothing — a score of 0 (or ≤1) is the only part of the range that reliably changes management. It uses no endoscopic findings, so it cannot replace the post-endoscopy Rockall score for rebleeding risk.

Sources

  • Blatchford O, Murray WR, Blatchford M. A risk score to predict need for treatment for upper-gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Lancet 2000;356:1318–21.

Where this is written from. This site is written from Indian clinical practice. Drug availability and brand names, vaccination schedules, national health programmes and some reference cut-offs differ between countries — a schedule or a threshold that is standard here may not be standard where you are. If you are reading outside India, check anything on this page against your own country’s guidance before you act on it.

Educational use only — not medical advice. Never a substitute for clinical judgement.

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